SEC Charges Ann Coulter’s Ex and “The Other Kenneth Starr”

For long time New Yorkers, the real celebrity in the SEC’s fraud case against Kenneth I. Starr, an investment and tax adviser, is Andrew Stein.

Associated Press

Ed Koch and Andrew Stein

Stein is the former president of the New York City Council and New York State assemblyman, who is described as an “associate” who received money from Starr’s alleged scheme to defraud his clients, which included a slew of Hollywood stars.

Stein was charged with making false statements to the Internal Revenue Service and for using a company he created through Starr to cover huge “personal expenses,” including hundreds of thousands of dollars in credit card bills.

Over the years, Stein has been known as much for his politics and ubiquitous political TV advertisements, as he has been for providing fodder for Page Six of the New York Post for decades .

A Democrat, he dated conservative commentator Anne Coulter, though the couple split up in 2008, according to New York Magazine. Stein told the New York Post that they broke up because of “irreconcilable differences.”

Stein is the son of wealthy publisher Jerry Finkelstein, who owns The Hill, the Congressional news site, according to Politico.

His father played a big role in Stein’s political life, helping bankroll and advise his son’s unsuccessful run against Mayor David Dinkins in 1994.

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